CHINA-US: THE TRIAL OF U.S. UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND CANADIAN CITIZEN ACCUSED OF CONCEALING LINKS WITH CHINA ENDED IN A MISTRIAL

The first jury trial of Anming Hu, a former Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, tried as part of the Department of Justice’s controversial China Initiative ended in a hung jury and a mistrial on June 16, prompting renewed calls for the department to suspend the initiative and investigate concerns about racial profiling and targeting of Asian American and Asian immigrant scientists. Federal prosecutors accused Anming Hu of deliberately concealing a professorship he held with Beijing University of Technology on forms submitted to UT Knoxville and to NASA. It is unclear if the federal government will attempt to try Hu a second time. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said Thursday that prosecutors “are evaluating our options but at this point have nothing further to share.”

(Comment: Anming Hu, a Canadian citizen originally from China, is one of about a dozen university-based researchers who have faced fraud-related charges for allegedly lying about Chinese funding or affiliations on federal grant applications, visa applications or tax forms under the auspices of DOJ's China Initiative.)







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